i built a fdm printer and although its cool and all...the quality of the output wasn't good enough for me.
I recently finished building my SLA printer from a bunch of parts i had lying around the house..and now i can print stuff like this:




lets talk about 3d printers..anyone else have one?

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8/26/2015 7:56:54 AM

Have you seen the one that prints using molten glass?!

8/26/2015 8:12:15 AM

Yea
Pretty awesome

8/26/2015 8:56:23 AM

I've got 2 of them in my classroom. Theyre pretty sweet.

8/26/2015 1:40:19 PM

Yep! I'm a big tinkerer/printer!

Here's my baby:

It's a rigidbot big (12"x16"x10" print volume, heated bed) that I've done a whole bunch of upgrade work on. Several of which I've put on thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/noen/designs

I'm a backer of the Peachy Printer, can't wait to get my hands on that. I've been meaning to play with the Form1 SLA printer in our makerspace but haven't gotten around to it.

Lately I've been working towards taking 3d printed models, cleaning them up and then making molds to cast them in more interesting materials.

8/26/2015 4:18:00 PM

^thats a monstrous machine you have there.!

post some pics of your casted stuff, i would love to see anything you want to show!

POST PICS OF 3D PRINTED SHIT IN THIS THREAD

8/27/2015 4:38:17 PM

print some tits, man. obviously.

8/27/2015 10:39:29 PM

I've got a 3D printer as well.

It's been run for thousands of hours at this point, I've had to overhaul it twice.

I mainly use it for rapid prototyping for projects I do, but have printed a few fun things. Some of my favorite fun prints have been things like the T-REX skull, the ruined tower, and a T-800 skull. I'll post some pics at some point.

I do my own modeling in either Solidworks or Sketchup depending on how complex the model is. I prefer Sketchup for simple geometry.

9/9/2015 10:17:07 PM

these are amazing:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/living-designs-from-3d-printers/
Green 3D Printer Prints Living Designs From Organic “Ink”

http://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-largest-3d-printer-can-now-make-entire-houses-out-of-clay
The world’s largest 3D printer can now make entire houses out of clay

that second one is 40 feet tall!

9/25/2015 10:54:24 PM